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See you in Portoroz! I am a speaker at DynamicsMinds 2024!
I'm excited to announce that one of my session was accepted for DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz, Slovenia! Do you want to see other sessions? Check the official portal - https://www.dynamicsminds.com/sessions/ Business Central Open-Source Contributions: The quickest way how to see your name during Microsoft BC Keynotes In this session, we will explore the open-source programs in Business Central and how you can become a top contributor with just an hour/two of your time every week. We will cover the following topics: How to create an environment for developing apps in Business Central using scripts prepared by Microsoft. How to choose an issue to implement and how to prepare, create and get approval for your own idea. Our experience with the development of the base app program The...
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Partial Records in detail (part 1)
Partial Records in the Business Central are a new technology in 2020 wave 2 release. Let's look at the quick description in one of the posts from previous month "Partial Records". Now check it in more details. In this first part, we will look at how the partial...
Second place on Hackathon Coding4BC!
Together with my two extraordinary colleagues we won the SECOND place on the very first world hackathon focused on Business Central. Coding4BC took place on 18 - 20.11.2020 and was greatly supported from the most-known capacities from Business Central world (judges...
Session on BC TechTalk about Business Central mobile development
I have a session on the upcoming online conference BC Tech Talks about an exciting topic - Build your own mobile app for Business Central! Event for the Technical BC PeopleBC TechTalk is a 2 day FREE online summit for the technical Business Central people: developers,...
Partial Records
Partial Records are a new capability of Business Central introduced in Business Central 2020 release wave 2. It allows specifying fields that should be loaded when accessing SQL based data. How does it work? Without using partial records, Business Central normally...
UI enhancements in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2
Dynamics 365 has come out with a comprehensive plan for the release of business central 2020 wave 2. In this article I will focus on updates to page styling, more responsive FactBoxes, and an upgraded dialog bar for a seamless service and optimized productivity. Page...
Current status of AL Code Analyzers
With the last update of Analyzers Rules, there are some new issues with warnings. This is not a comprehensive list of all bugs but contains information about problems that I found on projects that I am working on / managing. General Analyzer Rules AL0604 (for Runtimes...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Wave 2 has been released!
The new version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has just been released! Version is called 2020 Wave 2 and its internal number is 17.0. I already described some of the most anticipated functions, and I probably describe some other in the upcoming weeks....
Dart & Flutter: Use of REST GET method
This chapter we will continue with the project that we created before. The project could be found on GitHub. Now when we have a runnable app with homepage and standardized navigation, we can look on how to load data using REST. We will start with the basic example of...
Connect to Business Central Container using VS Code
In the last article, we created our first Business Central Container for development. But how to use it within the VS Code environment? There is nothing special about the configuration. Just use values from message gained once the container was created. Use a value of...
Access Business Central database running in a container from the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Whether your instances are running directly on the server or in containers, it is sometimes necessary to access a database directly from the SQL Server Management Studio. When you have everything installed on your device, it is usually straightforward - you have the...
Starting with Container-Based Development using Dockers
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers images for container-based development. Creating a new development environment using this container-based image (with Docker) is especially quick and easy. Install Docker The first thing that must be done is installing...
Interfaces in AL (part 3)
This is 3. part from the article series about Interfaces in AL Language. See the first one or the second one. In previous parts, I have described the basics of Interfaces in AL Language (what is an interface, how to work with them in AL and started working on advanced...
Merge entity duplicity
In the case of duplicity in Customers, Vendors or Contacts, the system offers functionality to merge related record. To run it, go to the customer/vendor/contact card and run action "Merge With…". The setup window is opened for the entity from which the page was...
Dart & Flutter: Project Initialization
We have already prepared development environment and Android Emulators in previous articles. In this chapter, we will look at how to create a new project and on the generated files. To start with, open Visual Studio Code (or any other support development environment)...
Interfaces in AL (part 2)
This is 2. part from the article series about Interfaces in AL Language. See the first one. In the first part of this series, I have described what Interfaces are and showed the example of how they can be created. In this article, I will show a more advanced example...